Greetings, VTHS!

We continue to encourage all of our students to become active participants in school so they will develop a sense of belonging while attending Vernon Township High School. A list of extracurricular activities is available on the district website. Please be sure to encourage your children to get involved in their school!

As we look ahead to the middle of the school year, please mark your calendars for VTHS Midterms, which will be scheduled for the week of January 31, 2022.

Wishing you all the best as we continue working together for the 2021-2022 school year,

Pauline F. Anderson, Danielle Colte, and Nicholas M. Demsak

This month, they're encouraging you to carry out small acts of kindness. This has been another difficult year of uncertainty and ups and downs for many of us. Kindness is contagious, and helping others has been proven to make us feel better too! Let's try to focus on being generous with our time and attention rather than money - it's free and better for everyone, as well as our planet!

Wed., December 1...................SCCC - during Unit Lunch - McGuire Technical Educ. Programs

Thurs., December 2.................SCCC - during Unit Lunch - Health Science Programs

..................................................Juniors & Seniors Movie Night - 6:00 pm - Auditorium

Fri., December 3......................VTSD TECH AWARENESS DAY

..................................................SCCC - during Unit Lunch - The NEW Culinary Institute

Sat., Dec. 4 & Sun., Dec. 5.......WELLNESS WEEKEND - Time to enjoy your family and friends!

Tues., December 7..................Band & Orchestra Concert 7:30 pm Auditorium

Wed., December 8..................Computer Science Stem Night 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Thurs., December 9...............BOE Work Session 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Lounsberry Hollow

Fri., December 10...................Orchestra Concert 7:00 pm Cafeteria

Sat., December 11.................VTHS Girls Athletics hosts A Day of Holiday Fun -12:30- 4pm

Wed., December 15...............Choir Concert 7:00 pm Auditorium

Thurs., December 16..............SCA Zoom Meeting 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Monday, December 20 through Thursday, December 23 -- VTHS Spirit Week!

Thurs., December 23..............Early Dismissal- Winter Pep Rally

Fri., December 24....................District Closed/Winter Recess

Mon., December 27 ................District Closed/Winter Recess

Tues., December 28-30.......... School Closed/Winter Recess

Mon. January 3.......................School Reopens

Monday, December 20th.....wear Holiday Pajamas or Onesies

Tuesday, December 21st.....wear Winter Gear

Wednesday, December 22nd.....wear your Ugly Sweater

Thursday, December 23rd.....wear your Pep Rally shirt* or Frosty the Snowman clothing!

*these will be on sale shortly!

Take a few minutes to review this wonderful video to explain these upcoming events! Enjoy!

• Eight VTHS Choir students recently performed a concert with the Sussex County High School Honor Choir at Kittatinny Regional HS. This choir featured some of the top singers from each of the Sussex County high schools. The students rehearsed for the concert in just 4 combined rehearsals - and they sounded great! Participating students were Aalyiah Gallagher, Megan Hertlein, Sky Port, Hope Rivera, Kelsie Shinall, Dylan Tomza, Brianna Van Orden, and Kailey Vogel.
  
  
• The VTHS Choirs are working hard in preparing for their Winter Concert on December 15 at 7 pm in the VTHS Auditorium. Admission is free. Come out to hear some festive holiday music and to support these students in their first indoor concert in two years!

Design Brief:

Plan, design, and create a transportation device that will successfully deliver three different types of candy into a one-gallon container six feet away. You will have a maximum of 2 minutes to deliver two pieces of each kind of candy. Judges will be using a stopwatch to time your
testing. The faster you finish, the better.

The premise of the competition:

Your group is tasked to design a prototype and the interior plans for a mobile integrative STEM truck that could deliver the mobile learning space to a school parking lot. The final deliverable must include a 3D model of the truck as well as drawings of the interior layout. Each truck prototype should have a particular theme related to the STEM fields. Your group should also design “a menu board” that is displayed outside of the truck with the activities of the day.

Congratulations to Mr. Jon Bruno and our talented engineering students! We are proud of all of you!

Thank you, one and all! The pies were delicious and greatly enjoyed during VTHS Thanksgiving dinners!

To date the Jets have hosted 5 educator symposiums with over 1,000 educators participating, conducted 25 school visits reaching over 10,000 students directly since 2015 and donated over 1,750 STOMP Out Bullying educator toolkits to schools with the potential to impact nearly 800,000 students. Additionally, the Jets have provided more than 27,000 tickets to schools for incentives for students who are upstanders.

For November, Caylee Walker is the Upstander of the Month for VTHS; Caylee was nominated by Mrs. Laura Merck. Congratulations, Caylee!

Stay tuned for VTHS's December Upstander of the Month!

Left to right:

Lexi Moskovitz (Volleyball), Emily Walker (Soccer), Pam DeMattheis (XC), Dylan Mann (Soccer),

Jeremiah Carfello (Football), Kaylee Losco (Cheer), Cristian Vintimilla (XC) and Julia Gregory (Field Hockey).

Not Pictured - Brianna Van Orden (Tennis)

Congratulations, one and all!

Forty players were able to clean up ten yards for families through Vernon. Players from the middle school age teams helped out at two of the houses, which allowed Mr. Hardin to talk to the team about his coaching days. Mrs. Gebhardt came to help out at her parents house and their neighbors. The Myren children came to help out too!

We are very proud of these players and what they were able to do for our community. Please enjoy some pictures from these clean-up events!

Congratulations to our Competition Cheer Team on taking the Grand Championship at West Milford last month and being honored with the Spirit Award in honor of Jo Anne Poppy!

All eligible juniors and seniors will be permitted to park on campus if they complete and/or provide all of the necessary Parking Registration materials listed below, including Random Drug Screening and attendance at a Share the Keys presentation. At this time, we do not have any additional Share the Keys presentations scheduled.

All vehicles parking on campus should be registered at this time. All students must complete and submit the necessary paperwork in order to receive a parking pass for the 2021-2022 school year.

Each eligible driver must present the following information in order to obtain a parking decal to be permitted to park on campus:

• A completed PARKING REGISTRATION form (see below)
• A COPY of a valid DRIVER'S LICENSE
• A COPY of the CURRENT REGISTRATION for the car
• A COPY of the CURRENT INSURANCE CARD
• A signed copy of the RANDOM DRUG TEST form (see below)
• Proof of participation in the SHARE THE KEYS' Program

If your child would prefer to pick up hard copies of the Parking Registration and Random Drug Test Form, please have them stop by the main office.

Student drivers should gather all information and return the completed forms to the main office. Mrs. Linda Hopper will be there to answer all questions and assist our student drivers!

President - Dianne Falcone

Vice President - Keren Gonen

Treasurer - Joanne Jarosz-Quaranta

Recording Secretary - Dayna Germinario

Corresponding Secretary - currently open*

*If you are interested in serving in this capacity on this 2021-2022 board, please contact Ms. Falcone at dion828@aol.com.

We look forward to another successful year as we work with our SCA board members!

The VTHS SCA will be meeting via Zoom for the remainder of the school year. Please contact Dianne Falcone if you are interested in receiving the link.

Thank you!